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“David Cameron has accused Boris Johnson of not believing in Brexit but backing it anyway during the referendum campaign on Britain’s EU membership to advance his political career,” Politico reports.
“In an extract from his forthcoming memoir, published in the Sunday Times, the former British prime minister ripped into the political motives of Johnson and Michael Gove, another leading Brexit campaigner who is now a Cabinet minister.”
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Former national security adviser John Bolton resigned the day after a Monday discussion about Iran policy in which President Trump raised the possibility of relieving some sanctions, a person close to Bolton tells Axios.

“Two New York Times reporters say they’ve uncovered a previously unreported account of sexual misconduct allegedly carried out by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was a student at Yale,” the HuffPost reports.
“In an op-ed for the Times, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said they learned of the alleged misconduct during a 10-month investigation of Kavanaugh’s life at prep-school and Yale, including the assault accusations, for their upcoming book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.”
“Max Stier, Kavanaugh’s classmate at Yale, told the reporters that he once saw Kavanaugh with his pants down while his friends pushed his penis into the hands of a female student during a dorm party.”

Robert Reich: “I think we have to face the truth that no one seems to want to admit. This is no longer a case of excessive narcissism or grandiosity. We’re not simply dealing with an unusually large ego.”
“The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable. And he’s getting worse by the day.”
“Such a person in the Oval Office can do serious damage.”
“What to do?

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Academies of Sciences, and scores of researchers around the world agree on this fact: To prevent dangerous levels of climate change, it’s likely that humanity will need to start pulling carbon out of the air.

On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U. S.-Mexico border illegally.